2009 Gordon Research Conference on Catchment Science: Interactions of Hydrology, Biology & Geochemistry, 12-17 July 2009, Proctor Academy, Andover, New Hampshire, USA

流域是了解水质和管理水资源的基本景观单元。利益攸关方比以往任何时候都更多地从流域的地理基础上处理当代环境问题，而流域的基础物理、生物和化学科学是复杂的。这次会议的重点是集水科学，探讨形成陆地和水生生态系统的水文、生物和地球化学过程之间的相互作用。需要了解这些过程，以便考虑集水区和生态系统对气候变暖、大气沉积、土地利用变化、灾难性事件和其他环境变化驱动因素的反应。这次会议的与会者通常是来自世界各地的学院、大学和政府机构的科学家(例如，水文学家、生态学家、生物地球化学家)。会议的主要成果是在更广泛的科学界总结和传播思想。

Catchments are fundamental landscape units for understanding water quality and managing water resources. Contemporary environmental problems are being approached more than ever by stakeholders on the geographic basis of catchments, where the underlying physical, biological, and chemical science is complex. This conference focuses on catchment science, exploring the interactions among hydrological, biological and geochemical processes that shape terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. An understanding of these processes is required in order to consider responses of catchments and ecosystems to climate warming, atmospheric deposition, land use shifts, catastrophic events, and other drivers of environmental change. Participants in this conference are typically scientists (e.g., hydrologists, ecologists, biogeochemists) from colleges, universities, and government agencies around the world. The principal product of the conference is the summary and dispersal of ideas throughout the broader scientific community.